A little over a week into the Plant Positive Jumpstart it's a great time to Evaluate and then Refine your healthy habits. An opportunity to: 1. Fix what is not working.
 2. Celebrate what is. 3. Where needed - Lower the bar to raise your chance of success. A few examples: 1. When I first became vegan I made perfect green smoothies by washing all my organic veg, adding minimal fruit and ruining it all with (disgusting) Spirulina. => it was too much effort! I swapped (#3. lowered the bar!) to frozen veg + fruit, ditched the Spirulina completely and used a plant-based protein powder. Faster. Cheaper. More enjoyable. 2. What you focus on expands, so let it be your WINS - celebrate them! Perhaps using up your leftover broccoli stems and "past it's best" spinach in a batch of dairy free pesto. Or making triple the amount of dinner you need and freezing it for future meals. Even, that low value snack you avoided today and the edamame you chose instead (I'm in a serious edamame phase currently!) 3. Lower the bar, by aiming for a shorter walk instead of NO walk. Or, one processed vegan burger with ALL the mixed veg and fresh salad instead of 2 burgers and fries. Even, aiming for 60 seconds of meditating or journaling if longer feels daunting. ✅ Is there anywhere YOU need to lower the bar to raise your chance of success? ✅ Ok, the GIF is the OPPOSITE of lowering the bar for your success however it's too good NOT to share!

Today's theme #MondayMotivation, and on my mind is some advice from entrepreneur Alex Hormozi that he shared in relation to business, however ABSOLUTELY it relates to health. Alex states to succeed you need: 🦁 The COURAGE to start (his word was balls, I like courage) 🧠 The BRAINS to learn. 💚 The HEART to never give up. To elaborate as I see it... 1. In health, you need the Courage to really commit. Wishy, washy, half-hearted won't cut it. It will likely ALSO eat away at your belief in yourself when you don't come through for you. Bonus points? Sharing your commitment with the people closest to you "should" elicit their support / understanding and also, it will help hold you accountable to more than simply yourself. 2. The Brains means recognising when something isn't working and adjusting accordingly. I absolutely DO NOT mean bouncing from one approach to the next. I do mean learning from mistakes or times you're set yourself up to lose the discipline game. 3. If you are taking the right actions, consistently you WILL see results. However, sadly they likely won't be in the fast timeframe you would most love. This means you must have the Heart to stick with it, as long as it takes and ALSO, to consciously focus on the good - the joy of the journey - the small wins, so that you can stick with it AS LONG AS IT TAKES! 😀 What small or big (!) wins do you have to share?

To know how to make the most of the next 30 Days, check out this post: Again, if you missed yesterdays post, my intention? For as many of us as possible to create a powerful habit - aligned with a more Plant Positive lifestyle - that we will continue beyond this 30 Days, and build other impactful habits around. Today's theme #WednesdayWeighIn and.... Overwhelm is lazy thinking! For those of us that set pretty big intentions for the next 30 days maybe overwhelm has reared it's ugly head already? I used to believe, if I could only manage my time better, then I could “get it all done.” I also did overwhelm well. It is really quite easy to excel at overwhelm. You simply think of everything you need to get done with a special focus on what you can not control. Add in a dash of starting this task, then switching to that, and now dwelling on ALL those you are yet to start, and it is amazing how busy you can feel. How overwhelmed – without actually achieving anything! Stated this way, it is easy to see that overwhelm is really just lazy thinking and frenzied yet indiscriminate action taking. The alternative is to: ✅ First - Admit you will never get it all done. ✅ Second - Have the focus and clarity of thought to choose what is most important – to Prioritise – and the discipline to act according to those priorities. Now, here's the third part which I am focusing on right now... ✅ To be really ON / focused / productive / disciplined, you also must schedule really OFF time. Schedule "unscheduled / free time"! ✅ - That might look like one afternoon (or a couple of hours) a week with NO commitments. - It might be a precious evening routine of only stuff you love (reading, journalling, even - I'll admit it, watching "Those who kill" on sbsondemand!) and NO cheeky little email or social media checking in bed. - It might be an afternoon walk in nature, even 10 minutes counts.

What is your ONE most important daily action for 30 Days this October Plant Positive Jumpstart? Considerations for your daily action: - This is about skill acquisition as well as results. What skills are worth building? - What is something that will have a compounding positive impact on your life? - What is the upside, if it goes really well? - What is the downside, is there even one - besides a little time?

I want to apologise for going off the radar since the Plant Positive Jumpstart in April. I am still super excited to build a supportive space for vegans and the plant curious in Skool. My timing was just off! I started this group at the same time as starting at a new gym in a new city, and finishing the second Plant Positive Journal. I have been thinking about what is the best strategy moving forward A LOT though, and will start putting it into action from September for a much improved Plant Positive Jumpstart in October. So, for now if you're up for hearing how a modest first small step can ignite life-changing action - I really recommend this podcast interview. I LOVED this conversation! In #TheHealthificationPodcast E883: Tim Kaufman's Journey From Addiction and Immobility to Athleticism and Wellness. Tim Kaufman is an exceptional story teller... and WOW does he have a powerful story to share with us today. Tim's journey from addiction and immobility to athleticism and wellness inspires hope and might well ignite the first small step of life-changing action. His book, ESCAPE - Breaking Free From A Self-Made Prison reveals in excruciating detail just how low and desperate Tim got after a terrifying health diagnosis in his early 20's prompted his descension into addiction to prescription medication, alcohol and fast food. By 37 Tim weighed over 400 pounds and was unable to perform simple daily tasks. He had lost his interest in life and had almost given up. When Tim started his journey to regain his health, it was only to buy some time between funerals for his dear wife Heather. This is NOT a linear change your diet, change your life, it's now all smooth sailing story. Subsequently, it is so much more powerful. This transformation is about Gratitude, Hope and making a start with tiny steps - it was getting out of his work chair twice for Tim. Importantly, Tim believes the mistakes he made when attempting this big lifestyle change, led to his success because at least he got started.